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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TJW, post: 25491852, member: 162919&quot;][ATTACH=full]1631968[/ATTACH] (I&#039;m new. Please, is ~this~ where we post unknown mystery coins? I have a doozy.) Please any theories of what this bronze/ae/potin unit is? Size is same as a US penny. Thickness irregular but thick: at thickest is like 4 cents stacked (2 stacked pennies at “thinnest”). The blobby abstraction reminds me of some barbaric tribes&#039; pieces. One side has a grain ear/ship/table/football-with-legs sort of shape and some letter-like marks resembling <i>S</i> and maybe an <i>O</i>. It&#039;s not clear which end is up.&nbsp; The other side looks to me like a crude <i>man </i>with 2 legs, one arm bent hand-to-hip, one arm lowered and holding a staff, possibly with a twined snake form. Is he <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepius" rel="nofollow">Asclepius</a>? Is it Etruscan? A Celtic copy of a Greek coin that pictured Asclepius? It&#039;s odd how they worked to make it look like specific <i>something</i>s, but it&#039;s so abstracted that it&#039;s unclear just <i>what </i>was intended. It feels Celtic perhaps, but anyone with specifics would be appreciated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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